Read the book last week to prepare... this adds ten layers of subtext and satire as well as glistening slabs of glorious ham on top, as only Bong can get away with. Pattinson shines, as expected, in a very enjoyably set of distinct physical performances. Ruffalo makes his work in Poor Things look like it's for Mike Leigh.
I still have no idea why Tim Key was dressed as a pigeon.
Criminally short-changed by a lack of cinema release, this is wonderful, chilling, thoughtful, beautiful filmmaking. It entirely captures the feeling of slow-creeping unease of the book yet boils down the sprawling threads of the trilogy into a single tale that never skimps on smarts.
The performances are note perfect. The imagery is painterly, stunning and horrifying by turns and most often, all at once. The sound design and ambient score are as good as can be to set the tone,…
It's Always Sunny In Killerdelphia
That the entire first half hour is the opening scene of Grosse Pointe Blank stretched out to a whole act is a delight.
Painfully, pastiche-sharp meticulous, lofty and low brow all at once, this is Fincher's black, black blackest comedy, a John Wick hitman revenge thriller made by a man who hates that Fight Club's irony was lost on millions of people.
He's taking the piss out of himself and them at the same time.…
